A history of Oxford anthropology / / edited by Peter Rivière

• Pubblicazione: New York ; ; Oxford : , : Berghahn Books, , 2009
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (230 p.)
• Disciplina: 301.0942574
• Soggetto topico: Anthropology - England - Oxford - History
• Persona (resp. second.): RivièrePeter
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Contributors -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Origins and Survivals: Tylor, Balfour and the Pitt Rivers Museum and their Role within Anthropology in Oxford 1883–1905 -- 2. The Formative Years: the Committee for Anthropology 1905–38 -- 3. How All Souls got its Anthropologist -- 4. A Major Disaster to Anthropology? Oxford and Alfred Reginald Radcliffe-Brown -- 5. ‘A feeling for form and pattern, and a touch of genius’: E-P’s Vision and the Institute 1946–70 -- 6. Oxford and Biological Anthropology -- 7. Oxford Anthropology as an Extra-curricular Activity: OUAS and JASO -- 8. Oxford Anthropology since 1970: through Schismogenesis 155 to a New Testament -- Appendix: Reflections on Oxford’s Global Links -- Bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Informative as well as entertaining, this volume offers many interesting facets of the first hundred years of anthropology at Oxford University.
• Titolo autorizzato: A history of Oxford anthropology
• ISBN: 0-85745-521-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910787853803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Methodology and history in anthropology ; ; Volume 15.